Chapter Twenty-Six: A Rain of Blood
The remnant sun is like blood.
The hundred-foot-tall magic trees are like soldiers, looking into the distance. The heart of the tree was unhurriedly rhythmic, and a stream of white mist emanated from the tree, spreading in all directions, and the air did not know whether it was the rotting of animal carcasses or the decay of leaves, and a slightly moldy smell made people smell it, and there was a feeling of poor breathing and suffocation.
A team of centaurs was speeding through this slightly gloomy environment.
There were four people at the front of the horse team, their cultivation was not high, and they looked like sixth- and seventh-order magicians, constantly waving the magic knife in their hands, the knife flashed, and the trees and one-person-tall weeds fell down like tofu under the magic knife, and a road that could accommodate four horses in parallel was also opened up by them.
There were forty people in this team, dressed differently, and their cultivation was also varied, although their expressions were slightly tired, but everyone's magic pupils flashed with excitement.
"Isn't it there yet?" said a thin old man in his fifties, frowning.
"Ninth Elder, don't be impatient, it should be soon. ”
As he spoke, Huang Licheng grabbed the reins of the horse, took out a compass from the storage bag, and tinkered with it a few times, the compass suddenly emitted a blue light, and the blue light slowly converged in the air, forming a map, on the map, a red dot kept flashing.
He looked around for a moment, then looked up at the sky, "According to the spirit disk, if I guess correctly, it won't take ten miles to get there." ”
"Great!" The old man named Nine Elders suddenly shot out of his four-colored demon pupils, as if a small slap had conjured up from that essence light.
In the demon pupils of the rest of the people, the expressions of longing and excitement were even stronger.
"Quick, before it gets dark, you must arrive at your destination!"
With the wave of his right palm, a momentum that belonged to the fifth-order great mage also emanated from his body, and where the palm wind passed, the demon trees and shrubs turned into dust and drifted away with the wind.
"Da Da Da, Da," the horse's hooves made a crisp sound as they stepped on the bluestone.
A puff of smoke chased the horse's buttocks, spreading happily into the distance.
The setting sun swayed twice on the treetops, then it sank, and the surroundings became darker and darker, and after a while, it became a black patch.
The horse team also came out of the jungle.
The ground is open, and the eyes are open.
"It's finally here!" Huang Licheng grabbed the reins of the horse, looked into the distance, and saw that ten miles away, a tall building similar to an archway emitted fluorescence in the dark night.
The cloudy smell in the air is swept away, and on the contrary, there is a faint fragrance that makes every pore very comfortable.
"Oh!"
The other monks of the horse team let out a cry of excitement, and for a moment, all the fatigue on the road became much lighter at this moment.
"Let's set up camp at the foot of the mountain!"
"Yes, Second Elder!"
Everyone agreed, urging the horses to gallop.
A quarter of an hour later, the tall archway continued to enlarge in the cool five-colored magic pupil, and finally froze.
He tilted his head and looked closely.
A white marble carved into a hundred zhang high archway stands there, on both sides of the archway is the blue jade pillar that two people hug, the stone pillar is carved with a dragon-shaped pattern, the huge dragon head seems to be overlooking all living beings, carved vividly.
Below the archway, is a slip of stone steps, extends to the door of the archway, each stone step has one meter wide and three zhang long, roughly counted, a total of eighty-one levels. From the archway to the top of the mountain, there is a slip, but it is not clear in the night, and at the end of the stone steps, at the top of the mountain, there is a faint shadow of a temple.
Huang Li Chengku turned over and dismounted, walked a dozen steps along the stone steps, thought about it, and retreated.
"Camp here tonight, and go up the mountain with Elder Ben early tomorrow morning. ”
The Nine Elders' lips bulged, but Sheng Sheng swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
The three bonfires were soon lit, and the flames kept beating with a crackling sound, like a beating longing in the eyes of the people.
In a simple tent, Huang Li Chengku sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and breathed in.
"Let's go," the door curtain was raised, and the thin body of the ninth elder appeared at the door, he glanced at Huang Lichengku, and slowly walked in.
"Are you trying to ask me why I don't just go up the mountain?" Huang Li Chengku still closed his eyes, and although his tone was flat, there was also a hint of coercion.
"Yes, aren't you afraid of long nights?"
The Ninth Elder found a corner covered with demon beast skins and sat down cross-legged, but he didn't cultivate, but instead stared straight at Huang Li Chengku with his eyes.
"Of course I'm afraid of long nights and dreams, but have you thought about it, why didn't the thirteen boys of the City Lord's Mansion succeed, is it so simple here!" He opened his eyes suddenly, and the five-colored demon pupils shone brightly.
"I thought it was simple. The Nine Elders lowered their heads.
"Forget it, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and tomorrow morning, we will go up the mountain together, with our cultivation, how can those little cubs be compared." Di Licheng's cool tone softened a little, and slowly closed his eyes again.
Early the next morning, as soon as the east was white, the whole camp became lively.
Cheng Cheng Ku came out of the tent, stretched out to the east, and let out a long breath, a few big magic birds, standing on the tree, shaking the colorful feathers on their bodies, staring at a pair of curious little eyes, looking at these uninvited guests, chirping and breaking the silence of the early morning.
The good smell in the air is even stronger.
Huang Li Chengku's spirit was shocked, what a good sign!
"Dongfei, you take ten people and search for guards along the foot of the mountain, and the rest of the people go up the mountain with Elder Ben!"
"Obey!" Although there was a trace of disappointment in the eyes of the man named Dongfei, he still clenched his fists and saluted respectfully.
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Huang Licheng's cool eyes, but he didn't make a sound.
Take the lead and run towards the archway.
"Hulala," thirty strong winds rose, and everyone soon came to the foot of the mountain.
Dongfei shook his head and followed behind everyone.
"Second Elder, look!" a monk exclaimed.
I saw a black storage bag lying quietly in the grass next to the stone steps.
Huang Li Chengku reached out and picked it up, and his spiritual power probed a little to observe, and he couldn't help but show a smile on his face.
"Sure enough, there are treasures everywhere!"
With a blank face, he slipped the storage bag into his arms.
The monk who first found the bag looked lost.
Huang Li Chengku stopped talking nonsense and walked up the stone steps.
Then, everyone found several more storage bags, but this time no one said anything more, looked at each other excitedly, and quickly put them into their arms.
Huang Licheng saw it and didn't say anything to stop it.
Along the way, before they could reach the archway, more than a dozen monks picked up the storage bags.
The memorial arch that is as high as 100 zhang, only to see three big characters on the archway, silver hook iron halberd, look closely, more and more magnificent, but Huang Li Chengku does not know what the three words are.
The dragons carved on the bluestone pillars on both sides, the knife work is delicate and vivid, especially a pair of dragon eyes, which are viewed anywhere, as if facing you, so that you have nowhere to escape. The clouds under the dragon's claws are white and elegant, clean and dusty, and if you look closely, they seem to move without wind, which is extremely treacherous.
Looking at everything in front of him, the excitement in the eyes of the Cool Demon was even more exciting, and the corresponding was the Nine Elders, in a short period of time, he had already picked up three storage bags, although he didn't check what was in them in detail, but he estimated that there must be a lot of good things.
"It's going to make a lot of money this time!" he secretly rejoiced.
Huang Li Chengku didn't stop, because his eyes had already seen the buildings on the top, the palace-like buildings, carved beams and paintings, blue bricks and blue tiles, antique, all of which showed the age of time.
He no longer hesitated, and stepped up the stairs.
Suddenly, there was a "boom", the sky swirled, and there seemed to be a big bowl in the sky.
"I'm grass, it's not good, retreat!" said Huang Lichengku, and his body immediately flew down the mountain, and in a moment, he flew to the foot of the mountain.
The sound of "poof, poof" sounded, and the remaining monks, including the nine elders, all the monks turned into a rain of blood in an instant.